What Does That Finale Mean for Season 3 of Dead to Me?

And, SPOILER! the second season of Netflix's Dead to Me ended with yet another twist.

The finale sets us up for a third season of Dead to Me—here's what we know.

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the season finale of Dead to Me.

There has to be a third season of Dead to Me after that finale, right? Right, Netflix? Let's hope that's a yes, because we need to know what happens after all of Jen Harding (Christina Applegate) and Judy Hale's (Linda Cardellini) secrets are revealed—and it all comes crashing down.

Season 2 of Dead to Meshould end with a triumph, given how much Jen and Judy accomplish and overcome. Jen gets away with murder, literally. Judy finds a secret fortune. Together, they liberate Jen from the clutches of her mother-in-law, Lorna (Valerie Mahaffey).

But it would be out of character for Dead to Me to give its two leads a break. They've spent the last two seasons covering up murders, or dealing with crimes that entangle them further. In the final moments of Dead to Me's season 2 finale, Jen and Judy are involved in another crime scene—but this time, they're the victims.

Translation? We are so getting a season 3. Here's what we can expect to see in the third season of Dead to Me.

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Season 3 of Dead to Me is not yet confirmed.

Netflix has not officially renewed the hit "traumedy," known for its unique blend of comedy and grief. However, the season was definitely written with a third season in mind—more on that, later.

Dead to Meprobablywon't return any time soon.

Until now, Dead to Me fans were pampered with a relatively short, year-long gap between seasons. The show premiered on May 9, 2019, and returned for its second season on May 8, 2020.

Chances are, we won't be getting the third season of Dead to Me in May 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has delayed production on TV shows, and it's incredibly hard to predict when production will pick back up. That said, the finale gives us a lot to think about.

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It will feature the same cast.

Aside from Steve Wood, all of the show's major characters are still alive and kicking. So, expect Linda Cardellini, Christina Applegate, and James Marsden to return, as will Charlie McCarthy and Luke Roessler, who play Jen's sons.

Now, these characters have new revelations to grapple with. Here's where the finale leaves them.

The season 2 finale wraps up many loose strings.

A lot happens in the finale of Dead to Me's second season. The most important progression? Detective Perez (Maria-Diana Riva)lets Jen get away with Steve's murder. She knows that Steve was abusive, and Jen was acting in self-defense.

"We are never going to talk about what we didn't find out here again," she says. "I don't want to be a cop right now. I want to be a person. Sometimes justice just works itself out."

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However, Perez was wrong; Jen wasn't acting in self-defense. As she confesses to Judy, Steve was walking away, but turned around to throw insults at her. In typical manipulator mode, Steve blamed Ted's death on Jen, and she was so incensed she bludgeoned him to death. Judy forgives her friend, just as Jen forgave Judy for her role in killing her husband, Ted.

The finale has a few more progressions. Judy finds money hidden in the paintings from Steve's art gallery, where he laundered cash for the Greek mafia. Howard Hastings (Jere Burns), the Chief of Police, was working with the Greek mafia, too, and is headed to prison.

The finale kicks off brand-new drama: Um, is Jen alive?

The season 2 finale ends with a nod to how the entire show began. Dead to Me starts after Judy accidentally hits Jen's husband, Ted, in a hit-and-run at a dangerous intersection. Jen spends the second season fighting to have a stop sign installed to prevent another accident from happening.

Ironically, right after ogling the new stop sign, Jen gets in a terrible car accident. Speeding in a Station Wagon, Ben rams through the intersection and into Jen's car. Much like his twin brother, Steve, Ben chooses to abandon the scene of the accident.

After the accident, Judy wakes up first. Jen seems to awaken at the end of the episode—it's not clear whether she'll recover.

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Did Ben hit Jen's car on purpose?

Right before the hit-and-run accident, Ben gets a call from an undisclosed person. Based on the conversation, we can infer it's the police informing him that his brother's body was found in the woods (a dog sniffed it out in an earlier scene).

Ben chooses not to tell his mother (Frances Conroy), and instead steps out to "buy ice cream." But why does buying ice cream entail recklessly driving near Jen's house? Judy had recently broken things off—is he suspicious of her involvement in his brother's death?

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Will Charlie learn the truth about his mother?

At the same time Judy and Jen are driving home in the brand-new car they bought for Charlie (Sam McCarthy), he's learning something that will change his life forever. Charlie stumbles on the letter that Jen wrote Judy before she confessed to Detective Perez. In the letter, she asks Judy to raise her sons while she was in prison, and be their legal guardian.

"I need to confess before one more bad thing happens," she wrote. Unfortunately, a bad thing already did. Come season 3, if there is one, Charlie will be roped into Judy and Jen's tangled lives.

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